Could this be a confederate uses US belt buckle

[petroguy3666]

Hi everyone, I have this belt for a longtime and it looks like its a cartridge box plate that was used as a belt buckle. I really dont have a doubt in my mind that its all original, but why would a union soldier have to use this plate when they had plenty of resources compared to the confederates. Is it possible that a confederate would have done this? I was just looking for opinions, Thanx for your time guys.

Rick

 

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[villagenut]

I think that a resourceful Union soldier just wanted his pants to quit falling down. I doubt that a southern soldier would want to be caught dead in that buckle. Very cool relic , pretty sweet.

 

[villagenut]

You could check for a makers name of the leather belt, that may help determine even more so whether the belt started out north or south.

 

[Spats]

I have no idea as to who used this buckle, but I've heard that confederates would use captured US buckles and turn them upside down so the letters would read "sn" which they said stood for southern nation.

 

[Icewing]

While I concur on it being a cartrige box plate, but I don't quite understand how that hook was supposed to work without a place to hook it?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Likely repurposed after the war.

 

[petroguy3666]

There was a keeper on the other side of the belt, but it was torn off before i got it. I appreciate all your opinions, thanx

 

[Old Pueblo]

Confederates capyures lots of Union stuff and many of them were bluecoats before the war, and would have had their own "Union" uniforms. From what I understand, at the beginning of the war, some of the US Army regiments in the South that had joined the Confederacy, were still wearing blue uniforms when Sumter was bombarded.

 

[Davers]

Hard for me to say , but it is a very nice piece to have.

 

[relic lover]

I think that a resourceful Union soldier just wanted his pants to quit falling down. I doubt that a southern soldier would want to be caught dead in that buckle. Very cool relic , pretty sweet.

He did use them but they turned it upside down so it would say Southern Nation rather than us

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